Kneeland Timothy W., Warren Carol A.B.:
Pushbutton Psychiatry
A Cultural History Of Electroshock In America
Left Coast Press Inc (United States), 2008
Paperback, 156 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9781598743630
ISBN-10: 1598743635
Pushbutton Psychiatry
Uncovers the roots of electroshock in America, an outgrowth of western patriarchal medicine with primarily female patients. The authors trace the history of electroshock in the United States in three historic stages: from an enthusiastic reception in 1940, to a period of crisis in the 1960s, to its resurgence after 1980.

